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- Re-introducing a hard border in Ireland after Brexit would be like re-opening a “gaping wound,” a leading expert has warned.
- Prominent Northern Ireland academic Katy Hayward said a harder border with technology could destabilise Ireland’s highly sensitive peace process.
- Her warnings echo those from senior police chiefs who say that border posts would become a target for dissident terrorists.
- The UK government has committed to avoiding a hard border, but the prospect of a no-deal Brexit and continued talk of “technological solutions” means it remains a real possibility.
LONDON — Re-introducing a hard border in Ireland after Brexit would be like re-opening a “gaping wound” that would destabilise Ireland’s highly sensitive peace process, a leading expert has warned.
Speaking to Business Insider, academic Dr Katy Hayward, from Queen’s University Belfast, said the government’s touted plans to introduce customs technology on the currently invisible border between north and south Ireland was “dangerous on all sorts of terms.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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